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"Warp" <war### [at] tag povray org> wrote in message
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> somebody <x### [at] y com> wrote:
> > "Warp" <war### [at] tag povray org> wrote
> > > Just because the 16-bit operations are performed on pairs of 8-bit
> > > registers that doesn't make it any less of a 16-bit operation. The
> > > crucial thing is that you can perform a 16-bit operation with *one*
> > > single opcode.
> > It doesn't work like that. Otherwise, we should call x86 architecture 64
> > bits, 128 bits or even higher.
> I was talking about *all* the ALU operations, such as addition,
> substraction, etc.
Then, if there are *some* OpCodes that operate with 8 bits, does that make
it an 8bit CPU?
I think your (unconventional) definition is arbitrary and unworkable.
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